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February 26, 2011

Other People's Pantries #148

From Leah, in Williamsburg, Virginia:

Ages ago, I resolved to take a photo of my pantry drawer for you, in all its nonfunctional glory, the next time it did its trick of overbalancing and landing on the floor when I pull it out too far. So here it is.

The moral of this disaster is that when you're laying out the cabinet design for a kitchen, give it some thought and think about what you actually need to store!

The other three shots are on the other side of the kitchen, where I keep my baking equipment, and if you're thinking that maybe I have some skewed priorities, you're right. I've got a lot more space devoted to baking pans and racks than to actual food! Something's definitely wrong with me.

The only moderately clever thing I've done in my kitchen is to figure out how to hang wire shelves in the back of a cabinet's blind corner, so that I don't have to stack pans too high.

So, for better or worse, here's my pantry!

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@homegrown countrygirl: Thanks! I'm nothing if not real.
One of the ironies of my kitchen is that we actually took out a closet-like pantry when we set the kitchen up. The kitchen needed to be gutted because of a fire, and the pantry was smack in the path through the room, so we traded it for a much better floor plan and a lot more cabinets...we just didn't plan those cabinets very well.
I hesitate to say it, but the baking pans shown are only the ones upstairs! I've got a lot more in the basement.

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My name is Lydia Walshin. From my tiny kitchen in Boston's South End, I share recipes that use what we keep in our pantries, the usual and not-so-usual ingredients that spice up our lives. Thanks so much for visiting.